TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Jmidjr]

In last 2 days I got 7+ hrs seat time liming and disking food plots (yes, late but won't plant for 2 to 6 weeks)

Then 1 hr practicing with empty pallet and new pallet forks. Found that would be easier if you could SEE the forks +/or the pallet. But that's another thread, I guess.

All in all, made a nice few days (of hard work, of course)

 

[looknlearn]

Today I sat in the seat, parked without turning it on, and took a series of long and complex calls from my J O B. Cell phones seem to have a dead spot right at my desk in the basement (Honest I did NOT do that on purpose) so I tend to take my alls outside. So there I sat.

Work plus sick kids kept me on a short leash today.

Maybe I should name it "The Other Office"...

I will do better tomorrow!:thumbsup:

My goal is more seat time than TBN time! :thumbsup:

David

That is a lot of my kind of seat time as well. Sitting on the tractor in the shop, relaxing, pondering ideas, thinking about life, listening the music. Or sometimes I'll just take it for a ride. Allergies get me this time of year so I don't mess much with weeds and mowing really gets me even though I can't resist doing it some days but I pay for it later.

 

[benhunts]

Augering 6 and 8 inch holes for fence posts. Using the FEL to help pull field fence tight. Getting the fenced area ready to host some meat goats this fall.

 

[hotdogL553]

I welded a receiver hitch to the back of the skid steel so I could haul the dump trailer with me. We had a wind storm so clean up with the skid steer and dump trailer makes it go a little better. How do you survive without a FEL?
Thanks, Hotdog

 

[Short Game]

The ground is as dry as it's going to get this year, so I went into what is normally a swampy area and dropped an alder that was growing pretty much alone with huge fat limbs. I've been bucking those fat limbs to 8 and 12 feet and putting them on my log forks to carry to higher ground. In a few weeks, I'll move them up here to my cabin, buck them to 4 feet, and drill and inoculate them with shiitake mushroom sawdust spawn. I did alder trunk wood before, but the limbs have way tougher and thicker bark and much denser wood. They should produce more mushrooms and do it longer. Yum.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Mowed a couple 1 acre wildlife openings that are out in woods. I mow them once a year around Labor Day after the birds are done fledging and in time to make some lush fall grass under the apple trees.

Short Game, I've been wanting to try that mushroom thing. From the articles I've read it is pretty tricky to get good results around here. You make it sound easy - is it?

 

[MossflowerWoods]

I bush hogged and moved a little dirt on my tractor road to the backyard and dam area. I moved some rotting logs to allow access for the tractor onto the dam. I practiced with the grapple by moving some small 7-8 bucked logs 6-9' long and by moving an abandoned brick pillar. 1 hour maybe 1.5 hours max.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

The ground is as dry as it's going to get this year, so I went into what is normally a swampy area and dropped an alder that was growing pretty much alone with huge fat limbs. I've been bucking those fat limbs to 8 and 12 feet and putting them on my log forks to carry to higher ground. In a few weeks, I'll move them up here to my cabin, buck them to 4 feet, and drill and inoculate them with shiitake mushroom sawdust spawn. I did alder trunk wood before, but the limbs have way tougher and thicker bark and much denser wood. They should produce more mushrooms and do it longer. Yum.

Short Game,

They will grow on any hardwood, right? I wonder where I can get the sawdust spawn... Hmmm...

 

[Short Game]

Short Game,

They will grow on any hardwood, right? I wonder where I can get the sawdust spawn... Hmmm...

Not fruit woods. Oak, for sure, as they are alternately called, "oak mushroom." Just do a search. I used spawn from Fungi Perfecti, but have been told by locals that there are better alder spawns for my area. I'm getting some leftover spawn from one of them for this batch. I don't know the source. There are plenty of How-To sites for your end of the continent if you look around the net, as well as suppliers. Enjoy.

Shiitake Farming In Virginia Not necessarily the best tutorial out there. Just found it really fast.

I spent three weeks (on and off) building my own inoculating tool that I could have bought for $30 from Fungi Perfecti.

 

[charliepff]

I used the bx the last 2 days to move brush piles around, burn them and clean up the dead wood in the tree line around the house. While moveing the dead brush and leaves around I ended up convering an apparantly large underground yellow jackets nest. The bx moves pretty good in hi gear flying thru the woods. LOL I was stung three time and the wife was hit five times. I am allergic. Benadryll and ice kept me from having to use my epi pen but made me very tired while watching the pile the rest of the night. Happy tractoring.